I’ve noticed that if a track exists in two places in my library, i.e. in the original album and in a compilation, then when I rate the track the rating is attached to both (or all, if there are more than two) iterations of the track. This is all well and good until I try to use filters based on ratings for creating playlists, because it causes these tracks to appear in the list(s) multiple times.
Is there anything I can do on my end to change this behavior? Otherwise, can this be addressed in a future update?
I must be tagging things incorrectly, or something. My posts don’t get responses when I am asking questions about issues. Can someone please address the issue that I brought up in this post and also tell me what I’m doing wrong with tags?
Plex takes its metadata from Musicbrainz so if the recordings are linked there they will be linked in Plex’s metadata and ratings will be applied globally.
You could filter for, Album - Type - is not Compilation, and this should leave only the album version of the song.
Note, however, that this will exclude all compilation songs which might not be what you intended if it removes non duplicates with the desired ratings.
@Jason_D thanks for the info. It makes sense that if the tracks are identical they would essentially be seen as the same track, but when they are on different albums the metedata does reflect that and the ratings system should recognize it.
Your filtering suggestion would work for tracks that are duplicated in that way, but would in fact eliminate tracks that only exist on compilation albums.
